Snowmageddon!

Here's the view from my office window, looking out over the Key Bridge in Washington, DC about 5:00 Friday - just hours into the great Snowpocalypse of 2010.

It also snowed in DC, much less apocalyptically, just three days ago. With no wind blowing, the snow coated the tree branches in white. It was really quite beautiful.

 

 

With all this snow, I have no doubt that climate change deniers will be crowing that global warming is over.  Obviously if it snows in the middle of winter, global warming is a hoax.

Of course it's worth noting that while snow in summer would certainly be cause for concern, snow in the middle of winter is nothing unusual. Indeed, it is almost EXACTLY the middle of winter. Today, February 5, is 45 days after December 21, and 43 days before March 21.

I may be slightly off on the exact start dates for spring and winter, but you get the picture. Global warming does not mean that we will never see snow again, and snow in the middle of winter is certainly no reason to start fueling your furnace with dirty coal.

And this doesn't even mention the fact that we just experienced the warmest January on record according to the satellite dataset global warming deniers love to cite most.

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